What LUCK!!...Well, maybe more "SLOW DOWN" and things like this wouldn't happen?

Holy cow I am so tired, but can't put off posting for any longer. I still haven't added the bios of the kids back since they were zapped. Lucky for all of you I have a new "zapped" story :) - I know you've all been on pins and needles and are dying to hear what happened...so here you go:

We finally celebrated Caden's first birthday (less than 2 months late, but still during his first year right?!!) - I'm glad we were able to pull it together and do this for him. He was NOT a happy camper that day - he'd been cranky all day and the four teeth coming in didn't help either (we are happy to report they have broken through :)). Right before the party I saw the camera and made a mental note - so when I needed it I could grab it. Well picture time came and the camera was not where I left it and was no where to be found (we of course found it when everyone left and Caden had already gone to bed during the party, loosing all hope for any birthday party pictures :)). So, I used my cell phone camera instead - not the resolution I was hoping for, but...surprisingly it did a great job. I used it for videos too and was going to add them all to our blog to share with family and friends. I was moving the pics from my phone to my memory card so I could upload them and add them to our computer and blog. I thought I had picked copy to card so I had a copy on the phone and another on the card - but I selected move instead (leaving no copy on my phone). Then I thought while I had the card in my phone I would look to see if any of the files for my palm would work on my phone (it has an MP3 player and things on it - I know WHY multi task now?). I went to the mass storage section and thought I was selecting "change format" to view all the files on the card...but instead it reformatted the memory card and zapped all the info on it!! I had backups for my palm, but the pictures OF COURSE where GONE!! I was SO sick to my stomach when I found that I didn't select copy like I thought, but selected move and didn't have doubles. The good news is we got it all on our video camera - but that can't be uploaded...or SCRAP BOOKED (it's on tape). I had the cutest pictures of Caden eating his cake (chocolate of course) and the cake itself. I am so sick that they are gone, but I do have the video and luckily our friend took a picture of the cake with his cell and emailed it to us. So, thank you Phil - you're a life saver!! If you can't tell it is a choo-choo train cake, I had side angles and everything before *sniff* - it still makes me sad. Since this is all we have picture wise I hope you all can get an idea of what it looked like. With the lack of pictures I feel like we have nothing to show for his 1st birthday :(. I have to remember we will have 1 yr pictures taken - oh, you'll be seeing them mark my words!!

With all this craziness, I have to remind myself we do have SOMETHING to remind us of his first birthday (a lot for his first year really) - all is not lost...*exhale*..."BREAK!" (that was my team pep talk - I'm good now :)). That is all I have the energy to type about, I have more pictures to post later (My Best Friend got married - YEAH!). Have a good night - I'm exhausted (I'll share the story for that later too :)).